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I worked for Blockbuster for around 10 years with most of those as an assistant manager so I've got more than a few stories about the bs from both employee and customer side of things. Oddly enough I still wonder why they still kept sending us that godawful cotton candy to sell when no one bought it and all it'd do was dessicate into a nasty pink block in the package.
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My friend used to take a blow dryer to the stickers on the snes games he rented and would swap them with the bullshit his mom would buy him. Rent secret of mana, return super godzilla.
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Aug 27, 2014 07:52
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i just found a copy of crackdown on xbox 360 that i rented from blockbuster before they went out of business don't have a 360 but niceee
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Aug 27, 2014 07:57
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So what was the deal with No Late Fees? Clearly it was a lie, but what were the details?
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Aug 27, 2014 07:59
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Gutcruncher posted:So what was the deal with No Late Fees? Clearly it was a lie, but what were the details? they got sued bad and there really wasn't a late fee because if you threatened to sue they'd pretty much just let you keep whatever.
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Aug 27, 2014 08:05
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But what did they claim? Just a simple "Late fees done exist, lol jk" or was it shitloads of fine prints that said 'by the way thats a lie, idiots'
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Aug 27, 2014 08:18
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The most popular and handsome dude in my high school worked at one back in like 2003 and people thought he was even cooler because he got free DVD and game rentals I guess he got lazy since he worked there until they closed up and people now always talk about how they thought he was so cool but turns out he worked until it became uncool and how popularity is fleeting like that He killed himself in 2011, had a baby at the time with some hoochie after he had gotten fat and worked for a lumber company
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Aug 27, 2014 08:22
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I remember renting some pretty good SNES games there. Some pretty crap ones too. I also remember them trying to charge late fees for movies we'd returned on time.
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Aug 27, 2014 08:26
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Aug 27, 2014 08:34
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I worked there for a few months in high school, one of my co workers was a cute girl from my school and we hit it off talking about blockbuster video inc related stuff and hosed a couple times but then her family moved away and i never saw her again reply to this post emily r. if you are reading, i liked u
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Aug 27, 2014 08:53
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Gutcruncher posted:But what did they claim? Just a simple "Late fees done exist, lol jk" or was it shitloads of fine prints that said 'by the way thats a lie, idiots' I worked as manager of one for like a year and heres what i was told about that. Apparently it wasn't a 'late fee' it was an 'extended viewing credit' and you were simply choosing to keep it for longer and pay the extended viewing credit that this incurred rather than getting penalised with a late fee. So yes they actually span it into a positive, kind of like if you were speeding and you didn't get a fine you just chose to speed and pay the extended velocity credit this would obviously incur. Shirley Crabtree fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Aug 27, 2014 09:04
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Gutcruncher posted:But what did they claim? Just a simple "Late fees done exist, lol jk" or was it shitloads of fine prints that said 'by the way thats a lie, idiots' Gypsum is right, I heard it get called something else but it was like $1.25 or something to let you get away with keeping the movie for three weeks instead of just one you were still boned to the tune of the cost of the movie if you kept it for long enough though, like say two months or more (i worked there for six years and helped it get turned into a family video)
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Aug 27, 2014 09:10
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I worked at a BBV for about 5 years or so. Ask me anything about sexually harassing frumpy high school girls. One of many lame rear end low points, living closest to the store and having a key thus being the new volunteer to go let the cops in every time the AC blew a sign over at 3 am setting off the motion detector. Only once was it an actual break in.
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Aug 27, 2014 09:41
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it was the only way to play ClayFighter: Sculptor's Cut
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Aug 27, 2014 09:43
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Throwdini posted:theres a super hot vid floating around the net of some dude getting a bj from a co-worker at one
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Aug 27, 2014 17:55
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Design Spots posted:Well when i was like 16 I had sex with the lady, and it was the best. see what i mean
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Aug 27, 2014 17:56
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anyone get to go into the secret swank room in the back where you can play all the games? it was totally real
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Aug 27, 2014 17:58
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MegaGatts posted:Remember when Blockbuster turned away the netflix people and the nexfilx people started their own business called netflix instead? Not only this - Blockbuster actually realized that internet delivery was going to be important one day, so they engaged with Enron's Internet division (which was totally made up bullshit) to help them get there. We all know what happened to Enron, and Blockbuster never got there.
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Aug 27, 2014 18:03
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Throwdini posted:theres a super hot vid floating around the net of some dude getting a bj from a co-worker at one Okay, a few things. We don't know if it's blockbuster. Nobody is visibly wearing a blue polo with khakis, and there doesn't seem to be any visible blockbuster signage during the few moments where the camera quickly scans the store. Secondly, we don't know who works where. We assume at least one of them works there, but there are no visible uniforms or nametags. For pete's sake, the girl is wearing jeans and a black tank top! Blockbuster uniform? Hardly. My guess, smaller chain, possibly mom and pop. Man works there and his girlfriend came to visit him on her off day from a local pizzeria. Store was empty (blockbusters were always popping and often had more than 2 employees), so I'm guessing he locked the door and put up a sign, something like "be back in 15 minutes", and his girlfriend proceeded to engage him in oral sex. Don't trust the titles of those streaming videos on the net. If you believed them all, you would think incest is much more common than it is.
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Aug 27, 2014 18:21
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Cpt.Sean Luc Picard posted:I'm not the guy you're asking but one time a dude came to check out and totally plopped down his colostomy bag onto the counter while we did business. Served you right for recommending Titanic.
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Aug 27, 2014 18:26
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All I remember about blockbuster video is how I schooled my city in the video game championships
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Aug 27, 2014 18:33
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I played Star Ocean 2 thanks to Blockbuster And obtained a new appreciation for foreign movies. Basically it turned me into a hipster, thanks Blockbuster 
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Aug 27, 2014 20:45
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Lamebot posted:anyone get to go into the secret swank room in the back where you can play all the games? it was totally real swank my rear end, it had a single bathroom right next to the candy storeroom and our customers were too retarded to use it properly so it was employee-only
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Aug 27, 2014 21:05
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we went to blockbuster to rent videos because we were loving POOR when i was growing up and this has only occurred to me in the last 12 months. i had middle class guilt growing up, but i was loving poor the whole time. i thought i was posh, i was just pretentious. fuuuuuuck. so much wasted agnst
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Aug 27, 2014 21:18
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Theshby posted:we went to blockbuster to rent videos because we were loving POOR when i was growing up and this has only occurred to me in the last 12 months. i had middle class guilt growing up, but i was loving poor the whole time. i thought i was posh, i was just pretentious. fuuuuuuck. so much wasted agnst hate to break it to you but all middle class peeps in the '90s rented movies from blockbuster
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Aug 27, 2014 21:39
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Wang Flotilla posted:My town still has two running Blockbuster stores, and one of them is next to a Papa Murphy's take-and-bake pizza, which makes it easy to get dinner and a movie of two. I don't go there often because I get some stuff from friends who torrent, but every time I go the store seems well managed, and the people who own it say it's profitable. Good for them. Where I grew up there was a Little Caesars next to a Blockbuster. It was pretty good
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Aug 27, 2014 22:47
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Dennis Eckersley posted:Where I grew up there was a Little Caesars next to a Blockbuster. It was pretty good noice
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Aug 27, 2014 22:53
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Dennis Eckersley posted:Where I grew up there was a Little Caesars next to a Blockbuster. It was pretty good mine had a dairy queen next to it.
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Aug 27, 2014 22:54
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the south park where randy buys a blockbuster was a pretty good episode
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Aug 27, 2014 22:56
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Dennis Eckersley posted:Where I grew up there was a Little Caesars next to a Blockbuster. It was pretty good same here. little squeezers and sega genesis games happened a good amount of times on friday after schoo.
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Aug 27, 2014 22:57
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Fandyien posted:hate to break it to you but all middle class peeps in the '90s rented movies from blockbuster Pretty sure paying $25 for a VHS made rental very important. Now you can buy DVDs for like $10 after a few months on top of netflix killing them. DVDs becoming more affordable in the 2000s built the coffin, pirating dug the grave and netflix was the 6 feet worth of dirt thrown on top.
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Aug 27, 2014 23:02
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Aug 27, 2014 23:03
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I participated in the first real blockbuster video game tournament on the Genesis side of things. I did pretty well in NBA Jam, then held a clinic in Sonic 3 to the point where the officiator couldn't believe my score after two perfect scores in the chaos emerald stages...and then I made the fatal mistake of practicing the wrong level in Virtua Racing and falling to pieces.
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Aug 27, 2014 23:11
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BB was alright but our local place was cooler because there were like 3 stoner dudes who worked there and didn't give a gently caress and didn't charge late fees half the time. I rented a shitload of SNES games and I'm bummed out that kids can't saunter down the horror section and check out all the box art for 70s/80s horror movies (not 90s, gently caress that poo poo)
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Aug 27, 2014 23:21
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we didn't have a blockbuster because our town was too small but i used to rip off n64 and ps1 games with a tool i constructed out of a piece of wood and 3 nails to open the sliding plastic lock on the cases that my friends all passed around that's my story thanks
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Aug 27, 2014 23:31
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Dubious posted:we didn't have a blockbuster because our town was too small but i used to rip off n64 and ps1 games with a tool i constructed out of a piece of wood and 3 nails to open the sliding plastic lock on the cases that my friends all passed around are you this guy http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3660746&userid=38084
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Aug 27, 2014 23:45
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Dennis Eckersley posted:Where I grew up there was a Little Caesars next to a Blockbuster. It was pretty good our blockbuster became a little cease hers
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Aug 27, 2014 23:56
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Dennis Eckersley posted:Where I grew up there was a Little Caesars next to a Blockbuster. It was pretty good There was a Subway next to ours. The 3 feet in between the double set of doors smelled like heaven.
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M_Sinistrari posted:I worked for Blockbuster for around 10 years with most of those as an assistant manager so I've got more than a few stories about the bs from both employee and customer side of things. I worked a few years there and it was common for fatties ate that poo poo up. It'd be common for people to spend more on snacks than the actual movies they rented.
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porkchop_express posted:noice 
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